Greetings, Really good night. 25544 98 067A 0000 E 20101222234050000 56 Nice pass low in the Southeast. 36835 10 038B 0000 E 20101222235030000 56 20322 89 089A 0000 E 20101222235230000 56 27611 02 058G 0000 E 20101222235320000 56 Naked-eye pass. 23431 94 083A 0000 E 20101222235620000 56 04794 70 106B 0000 E 20101222235710000 56 26536 00 055A 0000 E 20101222235810000 56 22803 93 059B 0000 E 20101223000440000 56 Naked-eye pass. 22566 93 016B 0000 E 20101223000740000 56 33410 08 053C 0000 E 20101223000810000 56 20302 89 085A 0000 E 20101223000910000 56 Two naked-eye flashes. 1st time I saw this satellite. 07436 74 072B 0000 E 20101223001200000 56 Naked-eye pass. 1st time I saw this satellite. 00716 63 054A 0000 E 20101223001240000 56 1st time I saw this satellite. 13777 83 004A 0000 E 20101223001640000 56 12389 81 033B 0000 E 20101223001850000 56 Naked-eye pass. 37155 10 043D 0000 E 20101223002150000 56 1st time I saw this satellite. 28646 05 016A 0000 E 20101223002210000 56 Naked-eye pass. For 20302 1989-085A, I was looking at the area of the sky to the Northeast, where Capella is now in relation to me. I was a bright, maybe +1, naked-eye flash to the right of Capella, I noted the time and then looked with my binoculars, saw nothing. A few seconds later, I saw another dimmer flash in the same area, again nothing in the binoculars. After I finished observing, I found at that general position Navstar 16 (20302 1989-085A) and Molniya 1-62r2 (15223) near each other, but I believe it was Navstar 16, since I have seen other Navstar satellites flash in the past. Anyway always nice to seen a bright naked-eye flash when not expecting one. Regards, Bill ----------------------------------- Woolmarket, Mississippi (USA) 7x50 Binoculars lat. 30:29:07.3 N, long. -89:00:09.7 W, elev. 15 m -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20101223/b4333f6b/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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